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How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Young scholars have a class discussion on how the variety of foods we use on a daily basis come from all over the world. They identify foods that they are familiar with that come from other places.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Friendship Soup
Students learn creative cooking. For this early childhood lesson plan, students children work together to plan, buy, and prepare a soup for their lunchtime meal.
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Recipe Race Review Game-Enrichment Activity
As an enrichment or review of how to calculate equivalents in your cooking class, you could use this fun game. Plenty of time was put into designing this lesson, and plenty of time will be required for you to understand preparation...
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Proper Measuring Techniques with Correct Equipment
There is no better way to contextualize fractions than in a real-life situation. Learners demonstrate their ability to convert, measure, and determine fractional equivalents as they pertain to both liquid and dry measurements, as needed...
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Snack and Drink Preparation Skills
Who doesn't love a good snack? Provide practice with basic snack preparation skill for your special education class. They follow each step-by-step procedure to make and serve a hot drink and a sandwich. These skills are taught using...
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Cooking and Measurements
In this measurement worksheet, students trace the cursive letters that spell measuring cup. Students color up to the 2 amounts stated for each of the 2 measuring cups on the worksheet.
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Cooking with WIC Foods
Students share ideas about how they use their WIC foods. In this adult health lesson, students discuss benefits of eating a healthy diet. They create recipes using WIC food supplies.
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Food, Meals, and Cooking
Students examine the eating habits of people in other countries and learn new vocabulary. They also practice using nouns and the passive voice.
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San Francisco Cooking
Students investigate the history of San Francisco, California and then create recipes from the area, including a Monte Cristo Sandwich, Sourdough Bread, and a Golden Gate Burger.
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What are the ways of cooking rice?
Students discover how to cook rice. In this rice lesson, students discuss the different types of rice and their differences in flavor. They write each of the steps to cook rice.
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Solar Cooking
Pupils create brochures focusing on one area of climate change that interests them. This lesson ends with a creative project building Earth Day solar cookers and having a class cookout.
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Cooking
First graders make jell-o bugs following 100% of the written instructions. They prepare home made jell-o and then get out the jell-o molds. Students discuss what types of bugs are found in the Australian Outback. They pour the jell-o...
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Measurement- Cooking
Students explore measuring cups according to volume. In this capacity lesson, students investigate how to estimate volume to make a healthy snack. Students measure ingredients and prepare a snack.
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Ready, Steady, Cook!
When paired with a trip to Aston Hall's kitchen, this activity is a good way to practice recall and descriptive language. Without literally being in the kitchen, it could actually be an even better activity! Learners could use their...
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MyPlate
A nice, neat PowerPoint accompanies this lesson plan, explaining each of the MyPlate dietary recommendations. Another PowerPoint gives the class the opportunity to apply the concepts of MyPlate on a worksheet. Recipes are provided for...
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Fractions and Measuring in Cooking
Sixth graders explore cooking by creating food in class. In this ingredient measurement lesson, 6th graders discuss some of their favorite foods and review the proper recipes to cook them. Students utilize fractions to create a new...
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American Indian Cooking Before 1500
Students read and discuss an article about Native American cooking practices before 1500. In small groups they recreate a recipe for pemmican and sample the results. They discuss how food preparation and ingredients differ from modern...
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Kids in the Kitchen
Young chefs choose from a variety of ingredients to prepare a snack. Using soft peeled fruit, juice, crushed ice, sugar, dried fruit, dry ceral and nuts, learners experiment and make their own concoctions. This lesson would be especially...
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Food Science, Scientific Method: Reliability and Validity in Empirical Research
Secondary learners explore food science by conducting an experiment using the scientific method and creating a science fair project based on their findings. They learn about food technology and modern research development. They...
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The Dietary Guidelines (2010)
In a mini-lab, the class will prepare Hawaiian Haystacks to eat. A note-taking worksheet is included for learners to use during a PowerPoint presentation about six basic dietary guidelines. Most of the time required for this activity is...
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Stocks, Sauces, Soups
Written for a food and nutrition class, this resource has young chefs prepare chicken noodle soup. It begins by teaching vocabulary required for making soups, sauces, and stocks, as well as how to calculate percentages from given ratios....
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The Learning Network Fill-In: When the Food Writer Is a Ghost
Introduce your class to ghostwriting while practicing comprehension. From The New York Times' The Learning Network, this article covers the topic of ghostwriting for cookbooks. There are blank spaces and a word bank. Learners can use the...
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Preparing to Cook
Students explore cooking. They follow safe procedures for food safety hygiene. Students discuss their experiences of cooking at home and school. They discuss what they did to prepare to cook. Students view a video. They create a poster...
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Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe
Students cook up a healthy soup. In this early childhood food and cooking lesson, students gain knowledge about healthy diets, identify a variety of fruits and vegetable, and identify the connection between food served in the home and...